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Sex as a leisure practice has been the object of study of researchers interested in understanding the social dynamics of sex in the relationships between tourists and residents. This paper presents the female experience (cisgender, transgender, and transvestites) in the tourist destination Natal, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, on webpages of escort agencies. Through netnography, it was possible to identify the dynamics of these sex professionals when serving tourists in Natal, as well as their characteristics and experiences. Among the results, we highlight the social stigma around prostitution and the virtual sex showcases as an important business tool, both for sex professionals and tourists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses narrative reconstructions of the mother figure, based on an interview with three generations of women. The first group, or first generation, was born in the decades of 1920/1930. The second group is formed by women born in the decades of 1940/1950. The third group is composed of women born in the 1960s and 1970s. It should be noted that the interviews were conducted with childless women, so the analysis focused on the figures of the interviewees' mothers. The debate is theoretically based on the discussions from gender studies, as well as on reflections about the re-significance of women's memory. Through the analysis of the interviews, it was possible to verify different idealizations about motherhood, which reflected the female memories about their own mothers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the relationships between projects for women in the federal program Territórios da Cidadania (TC) and changes that occurred in the participation of women candidates and elected to the position of city councilor in the 2008 and 2012 elections in these regions. The paper focuses the analysis on application records, electoral results and electoral financing networks. The sources of data and information were collected on the Ministério de Desenvolvimento Agrário website, which was then responsible for the program Territórios da Cidadania, and on the website of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE). Supplementary data on municipalities were also obtained from the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). The data were organized in the form of a database and prepared for the generation of files of networks that were submitted to Gephi social network analysis software. The results show a considerable increase in women's political-electoral participation in TC above the national average as candidates and a timid increase in the number of women occupying council seats in the municipalities studied. To analyze these changes are used the positioning of the candidates in the financing networks and the changes in the profile of these women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil has a low participation of women in elective positions, little more than a tenth. This is a critical condition for a representative democracy. Among the structural determinants of this phenomenon is electoral financing. This paper investigates the participation of women in the financing networks of the 2014 elections in Brazil. The results show that the relations between the political agents produce an asymmetric and selective destination of those financial resources, constituting a structural dynamics of exclusion and marginalization of the women in the arenas of the power in Brazil. Based on data from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), we organized a relational database and used the methodology of social network analysis and multivariate statistical treatments to explore the 220,325 relationships recorded among 185,255 funders, party agents and candidates in the 2014 elections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The overall aim of this paper is to present some reflections on the invisibility of rural women's work in the cocoa value chain, based on bibliographical and documentary research, considering the information published from 2000 to 2015 on the impacts of environmental certification in gender equity relations in cacao farms, in the State of Bahia Brazil. It was concluded that the adoption of business strategies and environmental certifications, although they constitute development strategies targeted to the socioenvironmental development of the actors in the value chain, specially small farmers, tend not to promote equity shares and women's empowerment inside the cocoa value chain in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]